A Place of Grey
(A real-life wellness blog.)
How To Sneak In Self-Care When You Just Don't Have The Time
Sometimes I feel like self-care is a little bit of a fluffy term, but it's not. It's essential. Self-care includes anything from showering and brushing your …
How To Choose Positivity (Even When It's Hard)
The average person has an estimated 70,000 thoughts per day! Take a moment to think about the thoughts that run through your mind …
How To Start A Gratitude Journal
For most of us, there’s a lot more going on inside our minds and bodies than we let on. There are so many feelings and crappy thoughts about ourselves …
Why You Should Practice Exercise You Actually Enjoy
Think for a moment of what type of movement you would consider fun as opposed to torturous. Perhaps you loathe the idea of a …
Can't Go Over It, Gotta Go Through It →
It’s funny how, as new parents, we learn as we go. Even when we read the books and listen to the podcasts. Just like what our little ones experience, once we think …
How To Create Accountability With Your Diet
Sometimes we think we are being really “good” or eating the way we want to be, but what we’re really doing is thinking about it often, feeling guilty …
10 Reasons For Skeptics To Try Yoga (Even If You Think It’s Not For You) →
I’ve dabbled in different types of yoga for years. I so badly wanted to try yoga but always struggled with really creating my own “practice.” Sound familiar?
What Are Your Cravings Really Telling You?
Let's stop and think about, for a moment, how awesome our bodies really are. It is always there for you, pumping blood, never skipping a heartbeat, digesting
Why You Need To Get Outside Before Summer's Over
Summer is often a time for serious play, time off and deep relaxation. Well, it should be. Time off from school was meant to rebuild our reserves for the rest …
A Health Coach's List of Foods To Avoid
Some people believe that all foods are ok in moderation. Me? Not so much. My philosophy is that if something is really worth it to you and made …
Adventures In Potty Training
So we started potty training our almost-three-year-old and I wanted to share a few things that worked and didn't work for us, just in case …
How to Prepare for a Pampered Period
There are actually four phases of our moon cycle, or menstrual cycle, each month, and if you’re not using hormonal birth control, you probably are …
Why I'm Still Mourning the Loss Of Anthony Bourdain
I may live under a rock some of the time (ok, a lot of the time) due to anxiety and my inability to accept the crazy world we live in, but sometimes, certain …
Health Foods That Aren’t What You Think They Are
Many people are starting to become more aware of the marketing claims and labeling that stretch the truth about our foods and food product. Some of these foods are …
Nicole Answers: What is a Health Coach?
There's nothing that makes me look in the mirror and ask myself some deep questions about how I'm representing my business and …
What To Eat During Your Family's Nonstop Summer
For many parents, summer tends to be a time of baseball tournaments, soccer camps, vacations, and playdates. Although it sounds like …
Healthy Summer Entertaining Ideas That Are Quick + Delicious
A lot of healthy people claim that they eat well or work out most of the time but then they blow it while on vacation or on the weekends …
Which Milk Alternatives To Try (+ Which Ones To Skip)
I decided, personally, that I was no longer going to drink milk, like actual cow's milk, about 8 or so years ago when I was attending school for my health …
Why the New Moon is the Perfect Time for Something New
Today is the start of a new moon. That may be a really big deal to you, or it may mean nothing to you. It used to mean nothing to me. Then, as I started …
Juice, Blending + Protein Powders, Oh My...
Wait, a smoothie, juicing and a protein shake are not the same?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Really. They’re not. And when I talk about juicing, I absolutely …